Hi Richard, Are we still in the April 1st spoof season or do you really mean "obscure and unknown"?
I wish I'd had a $ for every time I'd played it rather than each time I've seen it called the above. Before I left the UK it was considered, alongside Dvorak 8, a youth orchestra piece and I have about 8 recordings, none by "obscure" artists and orchestras. Nor is it new parts and copies which give turn-over difficulties. I remember taking scissors into rehearsals to cut pages in half so that I could turn at a more convenient time than was given by the publisher. Easter Greetings to all, Ralph R. Hall On 3 Apr 2010, at 08:28, Richard V. West wrote: > My apologies for double posting, but I can't recall which list had a > recent discussion of Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice and attendant > problems. > > Our orchestra has just begun rehearsals on that obscure and unknown > work, the Franck D minor Symphony :-). The music is "courtesy of > Kalmus" > and I noticed that it was a copy of the original French edition, > notated > just like the Sorcerer's Apprentice (1st and 2nd on the same page). I > also noticed that it has the same lousy, badly placed page turns as > the > Dukas, which was recently discussed on one of the lists. > > Looking at it during the first rehearsal and muttering to myself, I > had > an epiphany: it was not the original publisher's fault. My guess is > that > in order to use less paper, or out of sheer carelessness, Kalmus > simply > copied the original parts from the outside rather than inside. > Confused? > What I mean is that if you left the first page blank (probably had the > title on it), and started on the inside left page, with the next > page on > the right facing it when propped on the music stand, the rests would > come in the right place. I recopied the Franck that way and it works > beautifully except for one page turn. Did it on the Dukas, and it > isn't > absolutely perfect (sometimes there's only one bar rest) but it is > certainly more feasible then the Kalmus version. > > By the way, I agree about that passage in the Dukas between 49 and 50. > It is truly tough. It took me a lot of work to get it accurately up to > speed. Well...at least up to speed! The second horn was about to > give up > and take up the kazoo. > > Apropos echo horn in the Dukas, I'm curious to know how you all do it. > It's relatively rare in the literature, so there aren't a lot of > opportunities to do it. I played it by hand stopping the horn about > 3/4 > or so to lower the tone a 1/2 step and fingering the passage a 1/2 > step > higher to play the written pitch. Are there other ways? > > Richard in Seattle > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/ralph%40brasshausmusic.com Ralph R. Hall [email protected] Ralph R. Hall http://www.brasshausmusic.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
